If you want to say, Zhou Yongtao is just lacking experience.

He racked his brains to think about the way the permanent fleet attacked the special group, but ignored the essential things, that is, what is the purpose of the permanent fleet coming?

Send to death?

If Lan Yun is tired of living, he might as well commit suicide by septum. It’s okay to take poison. Why should he bring a whole fleet and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to be buried with him?

Eliminate special mixed groups with four aircraft carriers, four fast battleships, and eight heavy cruisers?

If it could be done, there would be no defeat from Yan Hai.

Go back to guard the local area?

If the outer islands are abandoned and strategically blocked, even the permanent fleet with complete structure before the war will not be able to defend the narrow national gates.

It can be seen that Lan Yun has only one task: to assist in the defense of Liuhuangdao.

Even if you know that it is just a mantis arm to get a chariot, you must fight to the death.

If Liang Xia's Navy can be severely damaged on Liuhuangdao, even if it fails in the end, it will be a bloody war of attrition, which will be of great significance.

This is true for a small Liuhuang Island, what about the narrow local area?

Obviously, as long as Liang Xia's navy tastes the pain in Liuhuangdao, such as losing several aircraft carriers and suffering heavy casualties in ground combat, then before preparing to attack the Siyi land, there will inevitably be some concerns, and they may not be able to look forward and delay the fighter jets.

This is the purpose that the Nai Navy wanted to achieve in the offensive and defensive battle in Liuhuangdao!

If it can be achieved, even if you lose to the permanent fleet and let tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the permanent fleet die in the battlefield, you will be reluctant to leave.

So, does the permanent fleet need to fight to the special group?

From a tactical perspective, after the landing battle begins, will it be even more pleasant to go directly to the landing field and fire at those landing ships that do not have resistance?

In Bai Zhizhan's view, this is the key to the permanent fleet's delay from the Tuk Fortress until now.

If the target is a special group, then a few days ago, the special group supported the army to march towards Buzhou in Xuhai and covered the Marines to attack Jidao. Lan Yun should take action, take the permanent fleet and kill him, and fight against the special group closer to the local area.

In this way, you can also get the cover of the shore-based aviation force.

The volcanic islands are thousands of kilometers away from the narrow land, exceeding the combat radius of shore-based fighter jets. Don’t think about obtaining air defense cover.

Since it is an impact landing site, the battle location and target of the battle have been determined, and if it is not determined, the battle time is the battle time.

The problem is here.

How long will the battle on Liuhuangdao take?

Not to mention Zhou Yongtao, even Bai Zhizhan could not make a positive judgment. Perhaps even Liu Xiangzhen and the commander of the Marine Corps dared not easily draw conclusions.

The key is that no one knows how long the defenders on Liuhuang Island can hold on, or how capable they can fight.

In addition, the Imperial Marines' combat effectiveness is not very strong, it is a little worse than the Army, let alone the armored forces of the Imperial Guards.

It was just a small island, and there was no way for the armored troops to show their strength.

According to the arrangement of the Navy Command, the Seventh Land Warfare Division was sent to attack Liuhuangdao, and the vanguard had only one reinforced land brigade. Among the first batch of heavy equipment transported, there were only more than a dozen tanks, and all of them were light tanks eliminated by the Army.

This is a light-equipped unit mainly composed of infantry.

Based on the experience of the last battle, it may take ten days and half a month to defeat the lowly Huangdao. It is very likely that the reserve team will be used to finish the game in the later stage.

The combat plan has long mentioned that the expected minimum combat time is half a month, which can be extended to one month at most.

When necessary, other troops of the 7th Marine Division can be invested in, and even troops can be drawn from the 5th Marine Division as reserves.

However, there is no specific combat time.

There is no way to be clear.

This kind of landing battle has never been fought before, and there is no experience to talk about, and everything needs to be explored again.

If landing on Ji Island is a warm-up, then attacking Liuhuang Island is a training to make the Marines familiar with and understand the landing operations supported by the Navy and Air Force. As for the exercises conducted before the outbreak of the war, even if some tactics were explored and summarized, they cannot replace actual combat.

During the exercise, the Marine Corps officers and soldiers did not brave the rain of bullets and land on the beach.

In addition, in the fleet exercises over the years, landing exercises were just a formality and were never regarded as a serious play. Even if you were required to use live ammunition, the Marines were allowed to land after shelling, and then pretended to sweep the ground, and announced that they would occupy the beachhead.

After some discussion, Bai Zhizhan and Zhou Yongtao determined that the permanent fleet would go to Liuhuangdao directly and would not delay much time in the middle.

Here, there is a very important reason.

Why did the sixth game get news of Li Zhong’s death so quickly?

Bai Zhizhan knew this general of the Nayi Army, and could barely be considered to be aware of it. About ten years ago, when Li Zhong was debating against Lian Xusheng on armored warfare, Bai Zhizhan was present. As for Bai Zhizhan's understanding, Li Zhong was one of the few all-round generals in the Nayi Army.

At least in terms of the ability to "talk about war on paper", Li Zhong is not inferior to Lian Xusheng.

In that era, there were not many tanks, just like the Navy's "Nine Sky Thunder" war chess performance at the end of the war, it could only talk about it on paper.

What if the information about Li Zhong's death in battle was deliberately leaked by the Nai Navy?

Obviously, this is clearly a trap. What you want to trap is the special mixed group. To be precise, it is to induce the special mixed group to launch a landing operation as soon as possible!

Isn't that the case now?

After judging that the defenders on Liuhuang Island have no leader, Liu Xiangzhen is very likely to think this is an opportunity and decided to launch a landing operation in advance.

What if Li Zhong was not dead?

Of course, this is not important, the key is not the combat operations on the island.

The defenders on Liuhuang Island are no longer capable, they are soldiers armed to the teeth. In the past few months, Li Zhong must have strengthened his defense deployment, strengthened his fortifications, and reserved a large amount of ammunition and medicine. In order to deal with bombing and artillery, air raid shelters and underground tunnels were built.

In short, after the Marines landed, they are likely to fall into a tough battle.

Then, you may not be able to control the beachhead positions in time, and you may not even be able to unload equipment and supplies as planned, so that the landing fleet must be left on the landing ground.

Even if everything goes well, it will take several days for the landing ship to unload its equipment and supplies.

If Lan Yun led the permanent fleet to the destination at this time, it would definitely be a huge disaster for the landing ships in the landing ground and the Marines gathered on the beach. If it were not done well, the combat operation of landing on Liuhuangdao would be declared failure!

From another perspective, since you don’t know how long the battle on Liuhuang Island will last, why not choose the time for the final battle yourself?

Can Liu Xiangzhen think of these?

"Actually, we don't have to worry."

After Bai Zhizhan raised the problem, he frightened Zhou Yongtao, or stumped him.

"Commander, the situation is now..."

"The biggest problem is that we don't know how capable the defenders on Liuhuang Island can fight and how long the battle will last. We don't know, can Lan Yun know?"

"You mean..." Zhou Yongtao suddenly understood.

"He doesn't know, so he can't hurry up and hurry up?"

"Not only have to seize the time to hurry up, but also take the shortcut."

"Is this amazing?"
Chapter completed!